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SubjectRe: user space web server accelerator support

Fabio Riccardi writes:
> How can Apache "grab" the file descriptor?
>
> My understanding is that file descriptors are data structures private to
> a process...
>
> Am I missing something?

Unix sockets allow one processes to "give" a file descriptor to
another process via a facility called "file descriptor passing".

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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